The glasses did not however defeat the restricted field of view issue which has been plaguing Microsoft, with the reporter calling it “inadequate”, noting “virtual objects that are located directly in front of you, within the coverage of the screen, appear present. But when you turn your gaze away, they disappear from your peripheral vision.”

Magic Leap was working on protocols that save a mapped place in the cloud so each new device does not have to remapped an enviroment for each encounter. The new or returning glasses would merely needs to register and update any changes in the space. This in turn will let you share virtual objects across different surroundings, even if participants are in distant places.

Despite Magic Leap’s (still undefined) ambitions and massive funding the company is still far shipping a product, and when they do launch they are likely to be well behind Hololens for what seems fundamentally to be a similar experience, not to mention appearing to be less of a platform play, unlike Microsoft’s Windows 10 push.

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